Firm and Provider News

Sills Cummis & Gross recently welcomed two new associates. Steven M. Gellerstein joined the Real Estate Practice Group in the Firm’s New York office, and Nicole Joy Leibman joined the Litigation Practice Group and will work both in the New Jersey and New York offices.

Weil’s litigation successes across multiple practice areas and jurisdictions were recognized in the recently released Benchmark Litigation 2015, a guide to leading litigation firms and attorneys in the United States.

In the 2015 edition of Benchmark Litigation, more Gibbons attorneys are named among New Jersey’s litigation stars than any other law firm. The publication highlights eight Gibbons attorneys as state litigation stars and one attorney as a future star.

A team of employment litigators from McCarter & English – 3,000 miles from home and in the backyard of the Silicon Valley-based plaintiffs – convinced a California jury to enter a defense verdict on the plaintiffs’ claims.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today that it acquired Proximal Data, Inc., a San Diego, California-based pioneer of server-side caching software with I/O intelligence that work within virtualized systems.
The Sheppard Mullin Team Representing Proximal Data Included Michael Umansky, partner,...

Sheppard Mullin New York Corporate partner John Hempill has been appointed as a member of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies for a term beginning immediately and ending on the termination date of the Committee, which is set for September 24, 2015.
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Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP announced today that Norman C. Simon has been named co-chair of the Advertising Litigation Group alongside Harold P. Weinberger. The two will work together to lead the firm’s premier advertising litigation practice, which regularly litigates many of the nation’s most significant advertising disputes.

Weil advised Dave & Buster’s Entertainment, an owner and operator of dining and entertainment venues, in its $100 million IPO and listing on the NASDAQ exchange. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc., is the parent company of Dave & Buster's, Inc., an owner and operator of 70...

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP announced today that Paul H. Schoeman and Eric A. Tirschwell have been named co-chairs of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Group. Both are former federal prosecutors. They will take over leadership of a group that has handled many of the nation’s most high-profile white collar cases and...

Cornerstone Research has announced today Aviv Nevo, a professor of economics and marketing at Northwestern University, has affiliated with the firm as a senior advisor. Professor Nevo recently completed a term as deputy assistant attorney general for economic analysis at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A., is pleased to welcome four new attorneys to its New York City office. Herbert I. Deutsch, Jeremy E. Deutsch, Alfred N. Metz, and Christian V. Cangiano, formerly of the New York City firm Deutsch, Metz & Deutsch LLP, will contribute to the growth of the firm’s business law and litigation groups in the...

David E. Bronston, special counsel with Phillips Lytle LLP, participated in a panel discussion at the Northeast DAS + Small Cell Association’s Fall In-Building Wireless Summit on October 22 in Washington, DC. A frequent panelist at regional and national wireless industry events, hewas a panelist in a discussion titled “Regulation &...

A recently released report – The BTI Intellectual Property Outlook 2015: Changes, Trends and Opportunities in IP and IP Litigation – reveals that in-house counsel from the world’s largest companies and organizations have named Dykema to the BTI Honor Roll for Go-To IP Firms.
BTI interviewed more than 175 general counsel and IP...

Weil was ranked among the most innovative law firms in the 2014 FT Innovative Lawyers Report for Europe. The Firm was recognized in the categories of Dispute Resolution, Corporate & Commercial, and Client Service.

Kelley Drye has been retained as counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of GT Advanced Technologies Inc. On October 6, 2014, GTAT and certain subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New Hampshire. On October 14, 2014, the Committee selected Kelley Drye as its bankruptcy counsel.
GTAT manufactures and sells sapphire,...

Akin Gump obtained a 5-1 decision at the International Trade Commission on behalf of Shikoku Chemicals Corporation and Shikoku International Corporation in which the Commission ruled there is no injury or threat of injury from chlorinated isocyanurates (swimming pool chemicals) from Japan. The Commission, at the same time, determined that there is a...

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP has announced that Christine Willgoos has joined the firm’s intellectual property practice as special counsel. Ms. Willgoos has extensive experience litigating complex patent matters for clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. She was previously counsel at Paul Hastings.

King & Spalding has recruited Norman A. Armstrong, Jr., former deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, as a partner in its Washington, DC office. Mr. Armstrong will help lead the firm’s global antitrust practice.
As a deputy director of the FTC, Mr. Armstrong led three divisions that investigate...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has elevated licensed foreign legal consultant Yookyung Moon to partner. Ms. Moon is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation practice group and is based in the firm’s Seoul office.

Robert Faro, the Chief Financial Officer of Gibbons P.C., was selected as a finalist for the NJBIZ CFO of the Year Awards in the category of private companies with revenues over $50 million. This awards program, held on October 10, celebrated the financial executives who contribute to the success of New Jersey’s economic growth and stability.

Robert Faro, the Chief Financial Officer of Gibbons P.C., was selected as a finalist for the NJBIZ CFO of the Year Awards in the category of private companies with revenues over $50 million. This awards program, held on October 10, celebrated the financial executives who contribute to the success of New Jersey’s economic growth and stability.